Week of 23 January through 29 January
UN mission in Kosovo reports progress in work on new administrative structures.
JANUARY 28 -- Kosovo's Interim Administrative Council today named a Kosovar engineer to co-head the Department of Post & Telecommunications with a United Nations official. FULL STORY >>
Kosovo's wheat harvest expected to be lower than pre-1990 levels: FAO.
JANUARY 28 -- Kosovo's winter wheat harvest will be lower than the pre-1990 levels and similar to 1997/98 at 2.75 tonnes per hectare, the Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) said today in a report issued in Rome. FULL STORY >>
Expanded Kosovo Transitional Council to be inaugurated on 9 February.
JANUARY 26 -- The new expanded Kosovo Transitional Council (KTC) will be inaugurated on 9 February, the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) announced today. The KTC is the highest level political consultative group to the UN mission. FULL STORY >>
Kosovo's first tax inspectors sworn in.
JANUARY 26 -- The first 34 tax inspectors in post-conflict Kosovo were sworn in today after graduating from a rigorous one-week training programme. FULL STORY >>
Kouchner to visit Japan.
JANUARY 26 -- Dr. Bernard Kouchner, the head of UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), leaves tomorrow for Japan to discuss additional funding for the budget. FULL STORY >>
Serbs could join Interim Administrative Council within 12 days: Kouchner.
JANUARY 25 -- Serb community representatives plan to join the Interim Administrative Council (IAC) in 10 to 12 days, Dr. Bernard Kouchner, the head of the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), told journalists today in Pristina. FULL STORY >>
Co-heads for three more administrative departments in Kosovo named.
JANUARY 25 -- The Interim Administrative Council (IAC) today named co-heads for three more administrative departments in Kosovo, the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK) announced today. FULL STORY >>
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Kouchner meets Kosovo local leaders to discuss security and reconstruction. JANUARY 24 -- The head of the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), Dr. Bernard Kouchner, has met with local Serbian and Albanian leaders and reassured them that steps were being taken to normalize life in Kosovo and make the territory a better place for all its inhabitants. FULL STORY >> |
| Kouchner in Serbian part of Orahovac |
Over 130 judges and prosecutors sworn in by UN mission in Kosovo.
JANUARY 24 -- One hundred thirty-seven judges, prosecutors and lay judges were sworn in today by the UN Interim Administration Mission in Kosovo (UNMIK), in response to the urgent need of providing judicial services. FULL STORY >>